Facts and controversies in preeclampsia and eclampsia

Abstract

Pre-eclampsia and eclampsia are during pregnancy, the disorder that most often develops hypertension, as one of the signs that make up a classic triad, along the edema and proteinuria. Eclampsia, as old as Hippocrates already called "the sacred disease" when referring to the seizure problem; Etiquetaba Zweifel in 1916 as "the disease of theories" and that because so even today the cause of their production unknown, and defining a clinical picture when the cause is unknown, it holds us great difficulties.